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In the America we know, there is a very delineated separation between Congress and the Executive. Congress is the lawmaking body. Should the Executive try or want to take up the power of making laws -the Executive would be engaging in an act of tyranny. In short, our Republic was founded on a strict separation of powers, essential to liberty.

James Madison points out in Federalist 47 that “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

So, if such strong checks and balances were and are necessary to resist the tyranny of men, then why are they not being employed?

President Obama was out and about yesterday and not playing golf. He was first in Missouri stumping for Carnahan and then on to Nevada (14% unemployment) to stump for his right hand wing nut Harry Reid. In Missouri, he was touting the benefits of a green truck factory which, by the way, is not hiring, is three times more expensive than your average fossil fuel fueled trucks, and is exhausting the stimulus money (our tax dollars) even as we speak.

President Obama…from your own mouth we get ‘…under crap & trade, electric rates are necessarily going to skyrocket’, so why would anyone in their right mind want to procure anything that is powered by electricity. Oh yeah, he is also creating about 3,000 jobs total in a couple of states including mine in the manufacture of solar panels. That’s it! What will he do when the sun refuses to shine? That day is in the near future. Volcanic ash can preclude sun shine and even cool the earth’s temperature which should appeal to ‘global warming’ alarmists even as they blame the volcanic eruptions on former President George Bush.

It is almost beyond comprehension that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) will introduce the Cap-and-Trade Act on Wednesday, May 12th, for consideration by the Senate. It is being passed off as a “climate bill” with provisions for more oil drilling, but it is an assault on reality, on science, on common sense, and on any future economic growth of the nation.

The nation’s prisons are filled with men still claiming to be innocent after trials filled with evidence of their guilt. Denial of the truth is their last resort and this metaphor reflects what is happening in the utterly corrupt community of “global warming” liars and their associates in the U.S. government.

Recently 225 “scientists” wrote a letter defending global warming. It was published in the journal “Science”, one of the many such publications that have become as corrupt as those at the center of the global warming scam.

Based on last November’s leaked emails among those most responsible for the data at the heart of the global warming scam, it was revealed that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had been systematically publishing false climate information and analysis.

Moreover, the photo used to illustrate the “scientists” letter was photo-shopped to show a polar bear on a small piece of ice surrounded by water. The deception included the fact that many of the signatories to the letter lack credibility. Among the first 20 listed, none work in the field of climate science.

Ripe and ready from his ObamaCare “win”, the dictator’s next step is to ensure the Marxist-Democrats are never again driven from power. How? Obama will shove—just as he did with his ObamaCare Death Plan—Amnesty for Illegals down our throats and create a new voting bloc for Obama and his Stormtroopers.

The Obama has learned that it’s VERY easy to get everything he wants, as long as he ignores and bypasses the will of We-the-People. And ignoring the “governed” IS easy. By overwhelming margins, the American people said “NO!” to ObamaCare. But, Obama wanted it so he and the Marxists passed it, anyway. Then, he dusted off his hands, smiled and said “Next.”

“Next” is Amnesty and then he will destroy our ability to pay for electricity with his Cap and Trade—or more realistically Cap ‘N HUGE Tax.

Note: It’s simple for tyrants to get all they can seize and steal by simply ignoring the victims of their thefts. That is the despot’s way and certainly has proved to be the Obama Way.

Last week, in defense of her State, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a bill that will make it a crime to be in the USA illegally. By the way, there have been US laws on the books for years that already make it a crime to be in the country illegally. But, our federal government law makers and law enforcers—some for financial purposes and many for political gain—have given illegals a wink and a nod and allowed them into the country. Instead of protecting the people of the United States of America—which is primary job of the US federal government—the US government now protects illegal visitors it can use to its own personal advantage.

The result of this errant and unconscionable behavior is that We-the-People have to pay and suffer illegals’ ongoing medical treatment and all other social services afforded to non-US citizens (which today comprises MORE services than are available for and to legal citizens), death to US citizens from illegal criminals and the bankrupting of the States (which means us) by illegals with the tacit approval of the Federal government ruling class. Never, however, has it been so blatant as it is now with the Usurper and Dictator-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama. After all, he has already been allowed to get away with the greatest theft in history (think “bail out” and “stimulus”) and is in the process of nationalizing and getting kickbacks from any and all industries he wants. Now, he is being permitted to pass laws that are in direct opposition to the will of legal American voters. Still wonder why he keeps smiling as he continues to burn the USA to the ground?

Arizona has been one of the states hardest hit by illegal aliens entering the USA unfettered. It has also become the kidnap capitol—abductions by the Mexican drug cartels—of the USA and was on its way to be the world’s. Now, the federal government—under Obama’s direction—is launching an all-out assault on Arizona—to make it an “example” so that other States do not defy the dictator. Obama said that the new Arizona law will “threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.” Suffice it to say, this statement is a patent “crock.” In reality, the Arizona anti-criminal law is designed to protect legal US citizens and be fair and equitable to them! But, protecting US citizens has been neither the plan nor the mission of the Obama regime. Instead, the destruction of said citizens and their country is.

And as another strong example, bill H.R. 4173 which is being readied to be voted on by the Senate (suffice it to say it has already passed the Communist-controlled-and-run House of Representatives) will give The Obama the unprecedented power to—at his will—determine which financial organizations will be allowed to continue and which ones will not. If said businesses don’t ‘play ball’ with the tyrant, will they be in business for much longer? Before you answer, remember that Obama is being allowed to get away with any unconstitutional thefts, destruction of US freedoms, new land and water grabs and anything else he wants. No one has stopped him, yet. We have witnessed the Birth of Tyranny in the USA and it is a huge and horrible child.

Obama and his minions are now going after individual States, in order to nullify their sovereignty and State’s rights as afforded by the US Constitution. Oh, yeah, I forgot. With his actions, Obama has also nullified the US Constitution. That’s what Tyranny is all about folks. One has NO rights save those the tyrant is willing to bestow upon them. You ask “what about our inalienable rights?” Those were bestowed by God. And Obama is now working to usurp that position, too.

President Obama, his weird circle of advisors (czars), and the ideologues within the Democrat Party led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid only have a few months left to completely destroy the separation of powers between the States and the federal government.

A major battle is looming over the Tenth Amendment which declares that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Almost everywhere one looks today, the States are in rebellion to the overreaching of the federal government. The process involved is called nullification, a legal theory that a U.S. State has the right to nullify, i.e., invalidate, any federal law deemed unconstitutional. Since the Supreme Court moves at a glacial pace, the States through their legislatures have taken the lead in many cases.

Nullification is not secession as in the case of the Civil War, but there is a history of nullification that includes the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison both argued that the States are the ultimate interpreters of the Constitution, arguing that the States could “interpose” themselves to protect their citizens from unconstitutional national laws.

Much of the discord in the nation today has its roots in the vital difference between a conservative attachment to traditional values and a liberal ideology that would impose a One World Government on our sovereign nation.

The great philosopher of American conservatism, Russell Kirk, wrote “True conservatism is the antithesis of ideology. It is the negation of ideology. For conservative is grounded in the past. Its principles are derived from the Constitution, experience, history, tradition, custom, and the wisdom of those who have gone before us—‘the best that has been thought and said.’ It does not purport to know the future. It is about preserving the true, the good, the beautiful. Conservatism views all ideologies with skepticism, and the more zealous and fanatic with hostility.”

A case in point is the way that State after State has lined up to oppose through the courts and by individual legal action the imposition of the president’s healthcare legislation, passed on strict party lines by the Democrat Party and only after the most vile revelations of bribery and backroom deals. It is a bill whose content Speaker Pelosi said Americans should supinely consider only after it was passed.

There has been a rapidly growing awareness and rejection of the assertion that the federal government can “own” General Motors or that the government should be in the business of buying and selling mortgages.

Pending financial reform legislation would permit the federal take over any company to install its own board of directors and thus control the economy. The failure to exercise existing regulation of the financial sector hardly calls for more regulation. It calls for stronger enforcement of existing laws.

The increasing awareness and rejection of the false “theory of global warming” is being rejected on the basis of the widely perceived cooling of the earth during this decade and the wild projections of warming 25, 50, a hundred or more years into the unknown future. More and more Americans now know it is based on feeble and deliberately false “computer models”.

That is why the Cap-and-Trade bill, a huge tax on energy use, awaiting action in the Senate, even if imposed in the same fashion as the healthcare bill, will be rejected by the States. There is no need to regulate carbon dioxide, a natural gas that has nothing to do with “warming”, but a rogue government agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, is set to assert this falsehood through massive regulation that will destroy the nation’s economic base.

With increasing pace, the States are demanding that the Second Amendment protecting the right to own and bear arms be respected and asserting their right to pass laws permitting gun ownership, including the right to carry concealed arms for self defense. States that have enacted such laws have seen a dramatic decrease in crime.

The assertion of unconstitutional federal powers lies at the heart of the State’s rejection of these efforts. Unfunded federal mandates are bankrupting the States and they want an end to them. The rapacious taking of State lands is crippling theirs and the nation’s ability to access our natural resources.

A growing spectrum of federal laws intruding upon the sovereignty of individual States is being challenged and this is a good thing. We should all take heart from these challenges as well as the spontaneous occurrence of the Tea Party movement that is a dramatic demonstration that the spirit of individual liberty and of States rights is alive and well in America.

A new generation of Americans is learning that the Constitution was designed to ensure a small and limited federal government and that the States, like the Union, are individual republics.